Climb every mountain

Sometime in 1997, I read a bit about the bloody battles the British and the Japanese fought in Burma in 1944, namely at Imphal and Kohima. One of the notes I really got into was finding out that the British used outdated M3 Lee/Grant tanks and brought them up all the way to the top of Mount Kohima. It was the highest altitude that tanks were used in combat. And for me, that was something. I could imagine these lumbering (and tall for a tank!) brutes climbing steep mountain roads blasting bunkers left and right. I got the old Tamiya M3 Lee kit from Lil's in Megamall, shortly after leaving Basic. So this means this kit is a bit of the my return to modelling. And this also marked the first time I did weathering and used Gunze paints!